South Korea's problem with overworking

In an article that I found, it told a story about a widow retelling the story of how her husband died because he was overworked. The widow talked about how her husband worked at a food supplier specializing in jangjorim (a Korean side dish). His job was to make sure that production was up to standard and on time. He traveled all the time to oversee production as well. Her husband even worked on Saturdays. The morning before he died, he complained about feeling tired. Around 7pm, his co workers found him collapsed at his office. He was on of hundreds of people in 2017 who died due to being overworked (according to government data). The article also mentioned that South Korea work more hours per week than other countries (OECD countries). Because of the death rate due to overwork in South Korea, in July, the government legislated to reduce the maximum working hours from 68 to 40. President Moon Jae-in said that it would be an "important opportunity to move away from a society of overwork and move toward a society of spending time with families".

Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/04/asia/korea-working-hours-intl/index.html